Poppies in Alcohol Ink

Happy September! I hope you are having a good fall! Our weather here in Texas is still in the 100s but hopefully it will fall soon. This month’s new challenge over at The Flower Challenge is “Anything Goes” so I hope you’ll be able to participate.

I actually made two cards using the Poppies Background.

I stamped the background on heavyweight Yupo and heat embossed it with gold. Then I used alcohol inks in Crimson, Poppyfield, Valencia, and Mermaid to paint the background. For the background, I used a paintbrush and the Thank you card I tried just dropping the ink where I wanted it to go.

Alcohol ink can be a little tricky and there were a couple for times the ink escaped its embossed boundaries. Once my backgrounds were dry, I cut down the Yupo paper to fit a A2 card.

I finished the cards with some MFT sentiments, I believe the Happy Birthday sentiment is from a retired set.

On a side note, I was left with a bunch of beautiful red and gold pieces from my background. They were just too pretty to throw out (yes I might have a scrap paper hoarding problem lol) so I decided to make a couple more cards.

I took my strips and arranged them on some black cardstock and glued them down. Then I too a heart die I had and cut out the middle to make two additional cards.

So before you throw away all those pretty scraps take a moment and see if maybe you can make something pretty with them as well!

Have a wonderful week and I hope you get a chance to play along with our challenge this month!

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Supplies

*Listed below are the products I used and contain affiliate links at no cost to you. Thank you for your support! All products were personally purchased.

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